Always love to see some Legend of Dragoon rep, such a good soundtrack.

Begins with a deep synth hinting at the main chord progression of the source, with some simple percussion building up in the back... and boy does it build up since it becomes VERY loud. At 0:10 we get a synth doing the main strings melody from the source over the backing from the intro and from 0:17 the beat drops. As mentioned earlier, things get super loud but, more importantly, very distorted as well. My assumption would be that you pushed this extremely hard while mastering and ended up with this extremely crunchy sound, which is honestly rejection-worthy by itself. Somewhat interestingly, due to the volumes the main attention here goes to the second synth, which is doing the piano lines of the original, burying the actual melody. Luckily, the piano lines from the source are really cool so it still sounds good! At 0:43 we move into a slower beat but the mix is still crunchy. At 1:10 things change to a piano solo and the lack of humanization makes this part sound basically like a low quality "MIDI sound". The source has much more expression and also uses the sustain pedal to make the sound fuller, without it the arpeggios sound very empty. 1:36 re-introduces the synths doing the piano melody, soon after the percussion brings back the absolute crunch and then the synth doing the strings melody returns. At 2:11 there's a small variation with the piano synths being replaced by something playing in a higher octave but the general mood of the remix doesn't change much and we end on a fade-out.

At this moment, this track falls below our standards on both production an arrangement. For the first, the extremely crunchy mix/master are already a cause for rejection but there's also issues with volume balancing (synth doing the strings melody is completely buried) and some of the performances, like the piano one, are very mechanical. I'd love to make more comments on the mix but it's currently so crunchy that I really can't. Arrangement is very conservative, too much for OCR's standards IMO. I dig the general idea behind this, taking the source and moving it into an electronic vibe with the type of synths you chose here seems like an idea with potential, but I'd need more variations of the melodies, chords or structure if you want to this to pass OCR's bar. If you don't really feel like changing the source too much I do think this has potential to be a good non-OCR track if you fix the production issues though.

NO